ArmedConflictLocation List

Id Latitude Longitude Country Geo Name Id Description
5,668,892 -19.8436 34.8389 Mozambique
5,663,680 18.1194 -16.0406 Mauritania Police and demonstrators clashed in the Mauritanian capital Thursday after protests against a controversial census left one person dead earlier in the week.
5,663,684 18.1194 -16.0406 Mauritania Mauritanian police have arrested 56 people, including 13 foreigners, in Nouakchott during clashes over a census between the security forces and young blacks, the interior ministry said Friday.
5,663,688 18.1194 -16.0406 Mauritania A Mauritanian court has sentenced a Senegalese and three Mauritanians to prison for between two and five years, for ties to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a judicial official said Monday.
5,663,692 18.1194 -16.0406 Mauritania Mauritanian police have arrested more than 20 people on suspicions of having links to hardline Islamist groups, a security source told AFP on Wednesday.
5,663,696 18.1194 -16.0406 Mauritania Mauritanian police used tear gas on Monday to disperse hundreds of blacks protesting against a population census they deem racist, wounding several, a spokesman for the group said.
5,663,700 15.4975 -6.9506 Mauritania Armed men attacked a Mauritanian police post Tuesday on the border with Mali and took the sole officer manning it hostage after seizing all the weapons there, a security source said.
5,663,704 18.1194 -16.0406 Mauritania Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb on Friday offered to free a paramilitary officer in exchange for two of its men imprisoned in Mauritania.
5,663,707 18.1194 -16.0406 Mauritania Youths gather near the Syrian embassy to protest the Assad regime.
5,663,710 18.1194 -16.0406 Mauritania Hundreds of angry youths protested outside the Syrian embassy in Nouakchott on Thursday to demand the expulsion of the ambassador, expressing their support for anti-regime demonstrators in Syria. This is the second protest in a week.